Re: [Beowulf] Approach For Diagnosing Heat Related Failure?

2009-07-21 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 15:42, Bill Broadley wrote: > > I'd suggest doing a visual inspection.  Make sure all fans are not blocked by > cables, are spinning.  If that looks normal pull the CPU heat sinks and make > sure they have good coverage with the heat sink goo, but not so much that it > leaks

Re: [Beowulf] Surviving a double disk failure

2009-04-10 Thread Billy Crook
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:27, Joe Landman wrote:> > We have 1 customer using 24 drives (22 for data with 2 hot spares) as an md > raid6 on DeltaV.  Normally we'd suggest something smaller (collections of > RAID6 and then striping across them to form RAID60's). > > With late model kernels, mdadm,

Re: [Beowulf] One time password generators...

2009-03-24 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 22:28, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Billy Crook wrote: >> Both can be integrated with PAM.  Yubikeys go for $25 (less in >> quantity).  Their server side software is Free Software, hosted on >> Google Code. http://code.google.com/u/s

Re: [Beowulf] One time password generators...

2009-03-24 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 17:25, Robert G. Brown wrote: > Doing certain classes of work one has to satisfy e.g. banking due > diligence, which tends to be stronger than ordinary cluster due > diligence.  One aspect of that security (generally required, quite > independent of whether or not it really

Re: [Beowulf] POST card recomendation?

2008-08-27 Thread Billy Crook
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 14:00, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cyberguys sells several models -- PCI and Mini PCI, though no PCI-X > that I've seen there. That is likely because PCI2.0 and 3.0 cards work in PCI-X slots. A PCI post-code reader *should* work in a PCI-X slot just the s

Re: [Beowulf] Configuring Infiniband on Linux

2008-08-27 Thread Billy Crook
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:56, Nifty niftyompi Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One key to Infiniband is that the IB fabric must have > a subnet manager. You only need one... And you need only one (Not more than one). That's just as important. ___ Be